The episode also features a great fight between an unmorphed Jason and Goldar and Tommy passes on his Power Coin to Jason, giving him the Dragon Shield Dragon Dagger and command of the Dragonzord. Rita reveals her green candle that saps away Tommy’s powers as it burns and the Rangers struggle to retrieve the candle from her dark dimension before it’s too late. Also a good episode to keep in mind come next season. Also the first time that Jason is temporarily given the Dragon Shield. The introduction of Titanus and a great Jason/Tommy team up episode that also demonstrates the rivalry between the two characters. Rita brainwash the new kid in town, Tommy, to become her evil Green Power Ranger, and he kicks the Rangers’ asses and fucks up the Command Center, before they finally break the spell and he joins them in their fight against evil The five part storyline that introduced us to Tommy, the Green Ranger, as well as Scorpina and the Dragonzord.

The very first episode, in which Rita is released and Zordon calls upon Jason, Trini, Billy, Kimberly, and Zack to defend the Earth as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. And now, twenty years later, in the first of a year long series of articles leading, are what I consider to be the essential storyline episodes of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Twenty years ago two astronauts accidentally released the evil sorcoress Rita Repulsa from her imprisonment and Zordon, the inter-dimensionally trapped wizard, commanded his robotic aide, Alpha 5, to summon five teenagers with attitude to become the the first team of Power Rangers.

Rita repulsa as green ranger